Classes/Seminars

SMA 476:    Introduction to Environmental Law

Instructor: Ms. Beth Bryant

Day/Time:   Mon/Wed, 8:30 - 9:50 am            

SLN: 19045

Credits:    3              

Room: MGH room 238

Description: Use and application of key statues in marine living resources management. Overview of administrative law and process. Basic legal research, reading, and briefing selected judicial opinions. Participatory case study component. Designed for non-law graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 476.

SMA 500:    Introduction to the Human Dimensions of Global Change in the Marine Environment

Instructor: Prof. Terrie Klinger

Time: M/W 10:30 - 11:50 

SLN: 19047

Credits: 3 

Room: FSH 108

Description: Introduces students to human dimensions of global change in the marine environment. Examines methods used to detect and understand change and to determine the impacts of physical, social, and institutional change on ecological and social systems. This foundational course establishes context for SMA 501, 502.  Required course for 1^st year SMEA students.  Students must also register for the quiz section SMEA 500AA.

SMA 500AA:    Speaker Series for SMEA 500 class

Instructor: Prof. Thomas Leschine

Time: Tu/Th 10:30 - 11:50 for SMA 500AA            

SLN: 19048

Credits: 2

Room: MAR 268 or FISH 201

Description: This special speaker series class, a required component of SMEA 500, will feature presentations by outside experts on topics related to SMEA 500's course content. 

SMA 509:     Integrated Coastal Management

Instructor:  Prof. Patrick Christie

Day/Time:  T/TH 12:30 - 1:50 PM          

SLN: 19050

Credits:  3              

Room: FSH 109

Description: Managing multiple uses of coastal waters and the adjacent land; conflicts arising from competition for space and resources; organizational, scientific and economic problems associated with coastal management; planning and management experience in the United States and S.E. Asia.  This course will explore the relationship between ICM, marine protected areas and ecosystem-based management.  Prerequisite:  SMEA 500 or permission of instructor.

SMA 512:     Interviewing Methods and Environmental Topics

SMA 514:     Marine Pollution Management and Policy- 2011 Theme: A Case Study in Decision Making Under Uncertainty: The Environmental and Human Dimensions of Risk From Arctic Oil Development

Instructors: Prof. Tom Leschine, Dr. Bob Pavia (NOAA), Dr. Mary Baker (NOAA)

Time:  Mon/Wed 2:00 - 3:20 pm      

SLN: 19052

Credits:  3                

Room:  MAR 168

Description: This year’s theme –A Case Study in Decision Making Under Uncertainty: The Environmental and Human Dimensions of Risk From Arctic Oil Development. Retreat of Arctic sea ice is opening the continental margin to a rush of oil exploration in an area that could hold 10% of the world's petroleum. The Federal sale of oil exploration leases in the Chukchi Sea in February 2008 brought in nearly $2.7 billion, including $2.1 billion from a subsidiary of Shell Oil. The permit to allow Shell to begin exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea was conditionally approved by the Dept. of Interior in August 2011, but continues to receive intense scrutiny. Conditions on this permit will provide the benchmark for oil extraction in Arctic waters in the U.S. and beyond. The course, offered in partnership with NOAA scientists engaged in this debate, will explore how these policy decisions are being made in the face of scientific, economic, political, and social uncertainty. This course will provide an understanding of theory and practice relevant to conducting environmental policy decision-making under uncertainty.Two exceptional students will be invited to go to the Arctic with NOAA in Spring 2012 to see first-hand the course topic in action. A detailed class description is available at: http://www.washington.edu/students/icd/S/marine/514tml.html

SMA 521:     Governmental Response to Climate Change

Instructor:  Prof. Nives Dolšak

Day/Time:  Mon/Wed 12:30 - 1:50 PM

SLN:   19053

Credits:  3

Room:  MAR 168

Description: Sensible responses to the challenges of global climate change will of necessity combine the knowledge and judgment of persons from many disciplines and backgrounds.  This course is intended for graduate and professional students interested in making global environmental change a significant part of their future work: the environmental sciences and their related disciplines; the social sciences and related professional programs; and natural resource management.  As a unifying theme of the course, Dolsak will focus on how organizations learn.  Visiting lecturers will be asked to focus on the questions of governance raised by the wide range of climate changes that may occur over the next century.

SMA 536:       Applied Microeconomics for Marine Affairs

Instructor:  Ms. Fei-Chien Chang

Day/Time:   Mon/Wed 3:30 - 4:50 PM

SLN: 19054

Credits:  3

Room:  MAR 168

Description:  This class is an accelerated introduction to “microeconomics” for students in the Marine & Environmental Affairs program. The instructor will introduce not only some elementary economic concepts, but also how to apply those concepts to real world problems and marine policy issues. Topics include how market prices are established, how industry structure affects market performance, how private consumers and industry respond to taxes and government regulations, and how economic activities are affected by changes in natural resources, government programs, property rights, and institutions. 

SMA 550:       Special Topics: Fisheries Management and Policy

Instructor: Prof. David Fluharty

Day/Time:      Tu/Th 2:00 - 3:20 PM        

SLN: 19055

Credits:  3                

Room: LOW 105

Description: This new course will focus on US fisheries and management and scientific institutions.  It will explore all aspects of the fishery management process starting from the basic laws that govern fisheries through their implementation at the federal, state and international levels.  The course will examine interrelationships with other management regimes that affect conduct of US fisheries including conservation of marine mammals and seabirds, recovery of endangered species and coastal zone management.  At the international level, the management of high seas fisheries, transboundary and highly migratory species and performance of regional fisheries management organizations will be surveyed.  Fishery implications of emerging trends in ecosystem-based management and coastal and marine spatial planning will be discussed as well as the increasing use of the tools of marine protected areas and catch shares in fisheries management.

Independent Study/Research*

* SMA 499 A   Undergraduate Research

Instructor:  Faculty  (Must have permission)    Time:  Arranged  SLN:  18184

Credits:  Variable (Graded)

 * SMA 570:   THESIS PRESENTATION

Instructor:  Fluharty             Time:  TBA during the quarter       SLN: 18193

Credits:  1 (CR/NC)                 Room:  TBA during the quarter

Will be offered every quarter so that students who plan to graduate at the end of the quarter will have the opportunity to present a summation of their theses to the SMEA community.  Students in their last quarter in SMEA should register for this course.  Toward the end of the quarter, a day, time and room will be announced for the summation presentations by the prospective graduates.

NOTE:  you must have signed permission from your thesis chair to register for SMEA 570

* SMA 600 A    INDEPENDENT STUDY/RESEARCH - Graded

Instructor:  Faculty        

(Must have a signed ‘Independent Study Form’ to get entry codes)            

Credits:  Variable (Graded)                   SLN:  18196

* SMA 600 B              INDEPENDENT STUDY/RESEARCH - CR/NC

Instructor:  Faculty       

(Must have a signed ‘Independent Study Form’ to get entry codes)              

Credits:  Variable (Credit/No credit)        SLN:  18197

* SMA 700              MASTER’S THESIS

Instructor:  Thesis Chairman (Graduate Faculty only and must have permission)

Credits:  Variable (1-9)                         SLN:  18198      

NOTE:  Students must have a signed, thesis prospectus turned in to the Graduate Program Assistant to take SMEA 700 thesis credit.